Monday, 31 October 2016

Happy
Hallowe’en everyone, hope you are planning lots of spooky going ons. For my
make I have a That’s Crafty! Upright which as soon I saw I thought would make a
great tombstone for tonight’s festivities.

The date by the way is the death of Edgar
Alan Poe, rather appropriate I thought.
Next I added a coat of Modelling Paste leaving obvious palette knife
marks to give the MDF an aged stone feel leaving the letters untouched and when
dry gave the plaque and the stand a light coat of Gesso and I glued the
two parts together.

Next
came a coat of Green Gold to the front and back.

When dry I added a mix of 505 Raw Umber and
50% Glazing Medium and left for 3 minutes and checked how wet it still
was.

The timing is tricky in that it is
affected by how hot the room is, how thick the glaze etc. You are looking for it to be so you can wipe
it off but need to use pressure to do so, this means it sticks in nooks and
crannies and creates shadows. Next I
added the cat using the Dinky Stencil and the Texture Crackle poking the
crackle while wet to get spiky “fur” kind of look. When dry I painted it with the two shades of
orange paint.

I later drew in eyes, nose and whiskers to complete it. I
also added a few bats front and back using the black Modelling Paste and That’s
Crafty! Dinky Stencil.

I
painted the letters in Steampunk Copper and outlined them in black pen

Now I
started on the coffin, again a coat of gesso and then a coat of the Prima
paint. I added the spider web stencil
using the black Modelling Paste in three places and when dry brushed a little
of the silver Metallic Lustre over. To complete it I added a thick coat of the
Clear Crackle Glaze.

I put
all the components together and gave everything a coat of Gel Medium and added
Micro Beads to the base for added texture.

Instructions

Wherever
I’ve used clear Gesso or Frescos, I have mixed them with Fabric Medium.

Apply
clear Gesso to tote with foam brush. Once dry, apply Chalk, in a random fashion,
followed by Lake Wanaka. Also applying all paints to handles.

Dip end
of craft spool into Lake Wanaka and “stamp” onto one side of the tote, adding
dots with Little Black Dress into the centres. Once dry, apply Chalk and Lake
Wanaka as in step one, this pushes back the “stamping”.

To
complete tote, adhere a band of suede, stamped with design, around top edge of
tote. Onto front of tote, adhere the stamped panels prepared earlier,
scribbling a border around both panels. Stitch a button to the bag, grunging
(!) it up with some messy marks with the white pen.

The bag
is ready to be packed with your favourite supplies ready for some art time!

Saturday, 29 October 2016

Donna
here today with another little monster……for some reason he reminds me of my
cat…must be the blue eyes!!

What to do:

Use
the 6x6 Gelli plate and Decoart paints in red and blue, apply paints with a
brayer, be careful not to mix them too much. Then use a piece of Strathmore
mixed media paper to pull the print, put to one side to dry.

Stamp
the monster separately onto Strathmore paper, colour in with Distress Markers,
fussy cut out and put that to one side too.

Taking
the thought bubble stamp from the That’s Crafty! Bentley set and a circle image
from Visible Image, stamp with black Archival ink directly onto the print.

Doodle
around the ‘thought bubble’ and on the monster with a white pen, adhere the
monster to the front of the card. Place a little Washi tape under him with a
sentiment then mount onto white cardstock.

Friday, 28 October 2016

Hi
there, I have a Halloween themed atc to share today featuring one of the fab
new PaperArtsy stamps by Elenazinski Art as I couldn’t resist this rather cute
image. Hope you like the little witchy too.

Thursday, 27 October 2016

We'd like to thank Mandy very much for guesting for us in October and for all her fantastic projects.

This
week, I’ve created a beautifully textured tag using a combination of mixed
media products. Using the Lindy's spray and the metallic paint make a beautiful
combination which changes colour as you turn the tag side to side.

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Hi everyone! It's Alison here today,
with an Autumnal journal page. My son has moved out, my daughter is back at
uni, hubby's at work, and I've just ditched my daytime job, so I'm enjoying the
solitude.

Instructions...

1. Using a page from a That's Crafty! 5
x 7 inch white/greyboard journal, I first applied DecoArt Texture Sand Paste
through the Bubbles Background Dinky stencil. I did this randomly in a few
places.

2. The next step was to apply white
gesso over the whole page. Then I started applying the White Tinting Base and
Cobalt Teal Hue, blending it over the page.

3. Next, I did some more stencilling,
using Cobalt Teal Hue with the Arrows Background, and Phthalo Blue with the Raindrops
Background.

4. I added some background stamping,
using the Prima Bubbles with Watering Can ink, and Prima Messy with Jet Black
ink.

5. I stamped the Birgit
Koopsen leaves three times on a painty piece of scrap paper, using
Versafine Onyx Black ink, then clear embossed them and cut them out. The paper
I used had some Fresco paint on it, Bougainvillea, Captain Peacock, and Tango.

6. Using matte medium, I adhered the
leaves to my journal page. I also added the word 'solitude' from an old book
page.

7. To finish, I stamped the Prima
Bubbles repeatedly around the edges of my page with Jet Black Archival
ink, then used a black journaling pen to outline the book page word.